Skipper's Smokehouse Talent Agency
Talent Roster

Genre Selected: ETHNIC

Celtic Soul

Inquire About Booking This Artist

A blissful marriage of the traditions of the seven Celtic Nations and the power of contemporary rock, Celtic Soul is a female-fronted Florida quintet armed with catchy up-tempo original songs that ride on fiddle and whistle breaks, strong arrangements of traditional songs like a rocking "Rocks of Bawn," a percussive take on "She Moves Through the Fair" and hot fiddle-based instrumentals, all with keyboard, guitar, drum and bass backing. The group has been winning over audiences in their hometown of Jacksonville as well as up and down the East Coast, developing a diverse crowd of followers. Celtic Soul would make a stellar addition to any venue or festival.

Cajun Dave

Inquire About Booking This Artist
Cajun Dave's music is exciting & exhilarating -- you just can't get enough! His performances will have you out of your seats & coming back for more. Cajun Dave is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and plays many instruments, including Electric & Acoustic Guitars (6 & 12 string), Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica, Slide Flute, Bongos, Percussion, Bass, Triangle (Tetfer), Spoons, Scrubboard (Frottier) and Squeezebox. Also major lead & background harmony vocals, and last but not least of course THE FIDDLE! He must have ants in his pants, cause he can never stay in one spot for a long time.

Andrei Cheine

Inquire About Booking This Artist
A native of Russia and an alum of the Lenningrad Conservatiore, Andrei performs a wide variety of jazz/lounge music in a number of languages -- French, Russian, German, Spanish, English, Italian. Whether on the keyboard or pumping an accordian, Andrei is a favorite at Busch Gardens, museums and live theatre houses.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Get ready to lift your stein up high for a high-energy Oktoberfest celebration you won't soon forget! From traditional fare such as "Alte Kammeraden" and the classic waltzes of Strauss to Polish standards and the timeless songs from The Sound Of Music soundtrack, DeLeon presents a program sure to get everyone up and dancing, lead by the father and son accordion team of Mario and Anthony DeLeon.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Noel delights in presenting Irish music and entertainment to audiences wherever he goes. A balladeer, actor and purveyor of Irish-flavored entertainment, Noel draws the crowd in through songs, stories, quips and tricks. Noel's most recent CD includes "The Black Velvet Band," "The Unicorn Song," and many other favorites.

Pong Lai Lion Dancers

Inquire About Booking This Artist
Pong Lai Wu Ji Tang Lang is the result of a lifetime of carefully cultivated martial arts knowledge and experience. Requiring a mastery of four complete systems of Praying Mantis Kung Fu (Seven Star, Plum Flower, Tai Chi and Secret Door), the Lion Dancers leave the fighting in the gym and present the pageantry and spectacle at their public exhibitions.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Undeniably the world's premier zydeco showman, Chubby Carrier is the third generation of zydeco artists with such famous relatives as Roy Carrier (father), Warren Carrier (grandfather), and cousins Bebe and Calvin Carrier who are presently considered legends in zydeco history. Born on July 1, 1967 in Churchpoint, Louisiana, Chubby began his musical career at the age of 12 by playing drums with his father's band, taking up the accordian at the age of 15 and in short order had begun to play with Terrance Siemien and toured the world for 2 1/2 years, before forming his own band in 1989. Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band have recorded five CDs over the past ten years of Chubby's professional career. His band has traveled all over the world, performing to audeiences in all parts of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, Canada. North Africa and Europe. Chubby and the band travel 150-175 days a year, taking his act to big festivals such as the New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Chicago Blues Fest, Summerfest (Milwaukee), Memphis in May, and numerous festivals in Europe.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

The Gumbo Boogie Band was first cooked up in the summer of 1995. The group started with a primary acoustic, jug band flavored sound. From the very beginning however, the band was strongly influenced by the music of South Louisiana. During the summer of 1996 the group released its first CD, No Electric Guitars. It received very respectable attention. They added a generous helping bass guitar, turned the drummer up a taste louder and made the hard drive of Zydeco style accordion, a more noticeable flavor. Soon the group began to refer to its sound as "Creole Style Rock-n-Roll", aptly describing a spicy blend of New Orleans Rhythm-n-Blues, Zydeco, Oldies & Classic Rock with a swamp water twist and the band's original material. They serve up this musical stew with a good time, street party, tent revival presentation that leaves audiences hungry for more. The band is known for its appeal to a wide cross section of age groups and musical tastes, and has been a hit with audiences at music festival, corporate events, food festivals, fund raisers, restaurants, art fairs, night clubs and honky tonks.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Led by James LeBlanc on vocals and accordion, this well-established Cajun/zydeco band has been setting dance floors a-fire throughout Florida since 1994. A native of LaFayette, LA, LeBlanc has played with many of the Bayou State's top musicians in his 25 years of as a professional musician, infusing his playing with an authenticity that can't be learned from a book - it must be lived. As further proofs, LeBlanc speaks and sings in authentic Cajun French, his first language growing up in the heart of Acadiana. In addition to its authentic Cajun and zydeco repertoire, Gris Gris also offers country, blues and rock 'n' roll as appropriate for the booking and venue.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Jewish soul music expresses the Jewish heart and that is exactly what the Mike Eisenstadt Band does. The band plays and sings Klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish Theatre, Chassidic and many other forms of Jewish music. Original compositions and unique adaptations of Jewish standards are always in the offing, with fun and laughter as much a part of the program as the music.

Kuumba Drummers and Dancers

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Each dance Kuumba perfoms is from a different region in Africa and carries the entire constellation of that particular music, ceremony, art and dance. Kuumba performances include singing and storytelling as well, as a well rounding out the experience with the added excitement of oral history.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Bringing the "green fire and ice" of Irish traditional music and dance to the stage, this quartet has played countless Erin-centric venues throughout the Southeast, including a five-year run as the house band at Four Green Fields, Tampa Bay's oldest genuine Irish pub. Armed with traditional Irish instrumentation of bodhran, spoons, guitar, fiddle and tin whistle, Pooka sing songs of Irish myth, magic, and mystery, taking the listener to the powerful world of the Celts. The prestigious Florida Folk Festival at White Springs, Florida, has hosted the group for four years running and the Friday night ceili the band directs is a highlight of the weekend. With a repertoire including soulful ballads (in both Gaelic and English!), rousing political songs and driving reels and jigs, the band's thundering dance tunes drive audiences to their feet.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

Based in the Orlando area, The Porchdogs specialize in Cajun and zydeco, the feel-good dance music born in Louisiana. A favorite of event planners throughout the state, The Porchdogs are ideal for theme parties, especially Swamp, Gator, Mardis Gras, New Orleans, Fais do-do. The Porchdogs are great for families reunions, house parties, wedding receptions, barbecues, picnics and casual get-togethers, anywhere folks are ready to let their hair down and cut a rug.

Inquire About Booking This Artist

This Cajun/Zydeco/classic rock/blues trio offers a show full of high-energy, upbeat-tempo Bayou-inflected numbers that will have your hands clappin' and your toes tappin' in no time at all. The Yard Dogs feature "Spiderman" Charlie Kuchler on accordion, keyboards and vocals, an exuberant performer equally at home covering tunes from the Rolling Stones to Clifton Chenier as his is providing dynamic renditions of his own stellar originals. The Yard Dogs live by the maxim "every day is Mardi Gras and every performance is a party!""

Return to Main Talent Roster Page